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...Lake, may have been permanently discredited some 14 centuries later by the combination of television and Robert M. Shelton Jr. Though impeccably accredited as Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America, Shelton, 37, a semiliterate, ferret-faced Alabaman, failed so completely last year to cast a spell on either the TV audience or the House Un-American Activities Com mittee that he was widely tuned out by the former and charged by the latter with contempt of Congress. Specifically, the committee charged him with refusing, under subpoena, to turn over Klan records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: The Wiz That Was | 9/23/1966 | See Source »

...everybody. His name is still anathema to most of the South, and many Northerners manage to resist his spell. But those who like him do so uncritically. "His position on Viet Nam is not that of my district," says Michigan's Democratic

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats: The Shadow & the Substance | 9/16/1966 | See Source »

...with passages that are even more clumsy and prolix than those in A Shade of Difference, the second in the series. But Drury succeeds again simply by cramming his book with intricately spun accounts of domestic skulduggery, international chicanery, congressional conniving, and White House squeeze plays-all of which spell bestsellerdom. What's more, old Senate Reporter Drury (who used to work for the New York Times) this time has heated up a special groin iron for political pundits. The central character here is a columnist named Walter Dobius ("Walter Wonderful"). And though Dobius may not resemble any single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Potomac Melodrama | 9/16/1966 | See Source »

...Kalthoum sings of love, of the bittersweet pangs of passions lost or longed for, unfurling verse upon verse of ballads that last for over an hour. Like a sorceress weaving a spell, she sings on and on, spinning variations on the same simple phrases, until 3 a.m. Then her millions of listeners, feeling spent, exhilarated and somehow cleansed by this solemn ceremony of joy, return to normalcy-until the next time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: Nightingale of the Nile | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...Babe has directed the part, however, Pentheus is more than irritable--he is mad. So it means very little for him to fall under the spell of Dionysus as he has no rationality to be deprived of. At the start Pentheus should provide a sane, if angered, resistance to the god. In the Agassiz production he can only spit inanities...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Euripides in Modern Guise | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

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